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Are smartphones the new cigarettes?

Canada
Published 17.03.2024
Are smartphones the new cigarettes?

Not too way back, cigarettes had been in all places. Lighting up in a restaurant, on a flight, and even in a physician’s workplace was simply a part of the smoky material of Canadian life. Until it wasn’t.

Now smartphones are the fixed factor we supply. We can’t appear to place them down. Will we ever? 

Guest host Melissa Duggan speaks with Richard Warnica, a business reporter and opinions author for the Toronto Star. He argues for the connection between smartphones and cigarettes, whereas sharing the teachings realized from butting out.

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